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Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life (2nd Edition)
by Richard Paul, Linda Elder
from Prentice Hall
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 
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Interesting, but quite biased
I have found the book to be more of a personal sort of self-help book than a classroom-teaching textbook. And viewing it as a college text I am surprised by the same inconsistencies of the critical thinking process that others have noted.
The examples used tend to be one-sided and very anti-establishment, such as questioning parental wisdom and guidance, questioning basic religious tenets, and being more open to non-traditional viewpoints such as considering that perhaps capitalism and democracy may... more info
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Repetition
This was a required book for my BSN class. While it is a proper choice for an adult learner, it is quite repetative and annoying.
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school work
had to get this book for college class i love the class but i hate this book luckly we dont take tests for this class just have to write papers about it and we can argue it and diss it as much as we want so that helps its just really hard to understand but some chapters do what there suppost to.
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Physician, heal thyself! 
This book is woefully inadequate as a text for a critical thinking course. What are we to make of a critical thinking text that says almost nothing about objective truth, the central role of argument in critical thinking, the distinction between inductive and deductive arguments, the distinction between truth and validity, or which does not even mention any of the standard deductive forms of argument?
Furthermore, the authors do not seem to know how their "Standards for Thinking" apply to their own... more info
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